Document length normalization

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 619-633

  Singhal, Amit ^a   Salton, Gerard ^a   Mitra, Mandar ^a   Buckley, Chris ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

DOCUMENT LENGTH NORMALIZATION; PIVOTED COSINE NORMALIZATION; STATISTICAL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030242009     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4573(96)00008-8     Document Type: Article

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